Le dve regole della prospettiva pratica
By: di m. Iacomo Barozzi da Vignola. Con i comentarij del r.p.m. Egnatio Danti ...
Contributors: Danti, Ignazio, 1536-1586; Alberti, Cherubino, 1553-1615
Publisher: Per Francesco Zannetti
Published: 1583
Place of publication: In Roma
Language: ita
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Perspective -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Due regole della prospettiva pratica
Notes: Generally listed as 1st ed., but some copies are found with the date 1582 on t.-p.; see Fowler.

T.-p. engraved by Cherubino Alberti, incorporating bust of the author set in a colonnade rendered in perspective, and the coat of arms of Giacomo Buoncompagni to whom the work is dedicated. Engraved and woodcut ill., including 8 full-page engravings and 1 woodcut. The engravings are by Vignola, the woodcuts by Danti; see Mortimer. Zanetti's device at colophon (3 darts). Historiated and decorated initials, head and tail pieces.

Index, errata, register at end.

Signatures: &#x2020; A-T (last leaf blank).

Fowler 386

Mortimer, R.  Italian 16th-cent., 538

Binding: old limp vellum. Remains of 2 pairs of ties at foredge. Author and title written on spine.

Centered on front pastedown is the 18th-century armorial bookplate (Pisani of Venice); see Bragaglia, 403. Below it is Giovanni Muzio's bookplate, etched by Giacomo Manzù. On front free endpaper verso is ownership inscription of Hortensio da Molin; above it is his monogram, dated 1608, and after it is the pencilled annotation: veneziano?